The annual turnover of IT elite offices selling plug-ins for trial reaches 2.81 million

I gave up my position as vice president. It elites talked about a self-founded company and started online game plug-ins with college students. In just one year, the turnover reached 2.81 million yuan, however, they were prosecuted by the public prosecution authorities for copyright infringement. Yesterday, in the Haidian court, Tan said he did not know that he had violated the criminal law.

This is also the city's first case of infringement of the copyright of Internet publications.

Tan was once vice president of a famous antivirus software company in China. After his resignation, he ran his own company and worked with his wife and college student Shen to create online game plug-ins. Shen, as a game player of legend three generations, serves as the manager of the company's network department and core business, and is responsible for the development of plug-in software. Talking about a wife is responsible for the company's financial and customer service work.

The Public Prosecutor pointed out that some plug-ins were not provided to gamers for free. They rented two servers of a certain network service company and set up websites such as "007 smart legend 3G plug-ins" without permission, illegal creation and sale of game plug-ins and cards make huge profits for players. The fee is 10 yuan a month, 50 yuan half a year, 80 yuan a year, 100 yuan can be used for life. The business's turnover in just one year has reached 2.81 million yuan.

When providing evidence, the public prosecution authorities also stated that the State Administration of Press and Publication had first identified the plug-in against the law and clarified the legal basis. According to article 3rd of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, the software part and animation part of the online game publication legend three generations are computer software works protected by the Copyright Law of China and art works respectively.

Without the authorization of the copyright holder, A 007 website enters its server system and modifies its related data without permission by breaking the technical protection measures of software works in legend three generations, use the animated image of "Three Generations of legends" and create and sell a large number of "Three Generations of legends" external cards. These behaviors violate the Copyright Law.

During the trial, tan, his wife, and Shen confessed to their infringement behaviors, he also apologized to Guangzhou guangtong communication Co., Ltd., the Chinese mainland agent of online game of legend three generations.

Tan and his lawyers defended in court that he was only a secondary developer of the online game "three generations of legends, it is not an infringement that makes profits for others.

After the trial, he said that although he was already a vice president in the past, he was unwilling to give up working for others and create his own company. He explained that the design of plug-ins is to clean the ball and seek original accumulation, but he did not expect that his practice would violate the criminal law.

The court will determine the day of the case.